Local & Area News

Our Sharing & Caring evening was a huge success! Thank you to all who attended and help bring a little peace and serenity into our busy lives. Music brings healing and talking and supporting each other brings unity. Together we will make the world a better place starting with our community. Thank you, Janice and Mary, for bringing snacks! Stay ...

Hockey is truly one of my passions. Hockey has long been and always will be Canada’s sport. With the whistling speed of the puck hurling toward the net and the flashing blades as the players rocket up and down the ice, what could be more exciting? I willingly admit to being loyal to a fault of a particular team that ...

Le hockey est vraiment l’une de mes grandes passions. Il a longtemps été, et restera toujours, le sport emblématique du Canada. Avec la vitesse fulgurante de la rondelle se dirigeant vers le filet et les lames scintillantes des patins qui fusent sur la glace, qu’y a-t-il de plus exaltant? J’admets volontiers ma loyauté, presque aveugle, envers une équipe en particulier ...

Weather: Wawa – Pukaskwa Park Today – Mainly cloudy with 30% chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon. Periods of light snow beginning this afternoon. Risk of freezing drizzle this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High -2. Wind chill near -10. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Periods of snow. Amount 5 cm. Wind up to ...

At 6:11a.m. Environment Canada issued the following Winter Weather Travel Advisory for the regions highlighted in the graphic to the right. Weather may be affected in bordering areas. A low pressure system will bring accumulating snow to the area. Snowfall will begin in the early afternoon for Sault Ste. Marie and reach North Bay later in the evening. The heaviest ...

Weather: Wawa – Pukaskwa Park Today – Mainly cloudy. 70% chance of flurries changing to 30 percent chance of flurries this morning. High +1. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Partly cloudy. 30% chance of flurries this evening and after midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low -6. Wind chill near -8. Sunday – Increasing cloudiness in the morning. ...

The Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision. On 22 November 2024, at 7:20 pm, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with emergency medical services (EMS), Conmee Volunteer Fire Service and the Oliver Paipoonge Volunteer Fire Service responded to a serious motor vehicle collision involving a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) and pickup ...

Damage can be seen here with the pieces of a light standard) that originally was on the island between the two lanes of Main Street. The truck and trailer drove through the empty lot (former Esso Station) and tracks can be seen where it hit the fence, then a building in the backyard and looks to have demolished the building. ...

There is a chill in the air and that means it is time for the LDHCF’s annual Wish Campaign.  However, best laid plans can go astray.  The current postal strike has put the distribution of our flyers and the Giving Tuesday letters on hold.  We will monitor the situation closely and hopefully be able to get them “in the mail” ...

Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 3 3 BUCKELL, Chris 2 2 2 LESCHISHIN, Barb 2 2 3 McCoy, Joe 2 2 2 SWITZER, Terry 2 2 3 DUGGAN, Sarah 6 1 3 GLOVER, Justine 6 1 3 HALL, Dave 6 1 2 STOYCHOFF, Peter 6 1 2 TREMBLAY, Cheryl 6 1 2 FAHRER, Tom 11 0 2 HALL, ...

Today, only nine rural hospital sites supported by approximately 35 rural family physicians are providing labour and delivery services to the 50,000 rural Northern Ontarians of childbearing age. Twenty years ago, there were 20 rural hospital sites providing labour and delivery services. Twenty years before that, nearly every hospital in Northern Ontario had these services.   Northern Policy Institute’s latest ...

Superior East Wawa Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charge driver of stolen vehicle with multiple offences.   On November 20, 2024, at approximately 10:30 p.m. police were advised of a stolen truck and trailer in the Town of Wawa. Several more calls were received that a truck and trailer had crashed into a residence on Toronto Ave. OPP arrived at the scene ...

A 63-year-old male has been arrested for theft and possession of stolen property from a local construction site. On November 18, 2024, members from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of stolen equipment and tools from the Taranis Construction site located in Lyon Township. After further investigation, officers with assistance from the Community Street ...

An individual is facing a criminal charge after failing to return a work truck as planned. On November 19, 2024, at approximately 1:22 p.m., the Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call for a stolen vehicle. The complainant reported that an employee had failed to return a work truck and could not be reached after multiple attempts. ...

On November 20, 2024, at approximately 7:00 p.m., the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) executed a Controlled Dugs and Substances Act (CDSA) warrant at a residence on Tokyo Crescent in Elliot Lake. As a result of the warrant being executed, approximately 250 grams of suspected cocaine, almost 9 grams of suspected Fentanyl, approximately 10 Methamphetamine tablets, a loaded sawed-off shotgun, over ...